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102 box sets

A set is one choice. A guest who takes the Cassavetes box has made a single decision and walked out with everything in it, so every ranking on this site counts it once, and the 486 films inside these 102 sets are counted separately only where a page says it is opening them.

Rank What came off the shelf What came off Visits that took it Visits
1 John Cassavetes: Five Films 6 films
30
2 The Complete Films of Agnès Varda 22 films
21
3 The Complete Jacques Tati 6 films
18
4 Essential Fellini 14 films
15
5 Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema 40 films
12
6 Pasolini 101 9 films
12
7 Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films 4 films
11
8 La Jetée/Sans Soleil 2 films
10
9 Six Moral Tales 6 films
10
10 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman 3 films
9
11 Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits 5 films
9
12 Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 15 films
8
13 The Before Trilogy 3 films
8
14 Three Colors 3 films
8
15 Three Films by Luis Buñuel 3 films
8
16 America Lost and Found: The BBS Story 7 films
7
17 David Lean Directs Noël Coward 4 films
7
18 Fanny and Alexander 3 films
7
19 Police Story / Police Story 2 2 films
7
20 The Apu Trilogy 3 films
7
21 The Koker Trilogy 3 films
7
22 The Qatsi Trilogy 3 films
7
23 Trilogy of Life 3 films
7
24 The Essential Jacques Demy 6 films
6
25 The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years 10 films
6
26 A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman 3 films
5
27 Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978 9 films
5
28 Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle 7 films
5
29 Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King 5 films
5
30 Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu 5 films
5
31 Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy 3 films
5
32 Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar 6 films
5
33 The Complete Monterey Pop Festival 2 films
5
34 The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher 5 films
5
35 The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs 7 films
5
36 World of Wong Kar Wai 7 films
5
37 Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood 6 films
4
38 Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy 3 films
4
39 Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa 4 films
4
40 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3 6 films
4
41 Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir 3 films
4
42 A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu 2 films
3
43 André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films 3 films
3
44 By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two 2 films
3
45 Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko 2 films
3
46 Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies 5 films
3
47 Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin 3 films
3
48 Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons 4 films
3
49 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 6 films
3
50 Michael Haneke: Trilogy 3 films
3
51 Pierre Etaix 5 films
3
52 Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy 3 films
3
53 The BRD Trilogy 3 films
3
54 Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène 3 films
3
55 Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy 3 films
3
56 4 by Agnès Varda 4 films
2
57 A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco 3 films
2
58 Carl Theodor Dreyer 4 films
2
59 Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys 3 films
2
60 Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers 3 films
2
61 I Am Curious 2 films
2
62 Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy 3 films
2
63 Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura 3 films
2
64 Small Axe 5 films
2
65 Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell 2 films
2
66 The Complete Jean Vigo 3 films
2
67 The Killers 2 films
2
68 The Red Balloon and Other Stories: Five Films by Albert Lamorisse 5 films
2
69 The Samurai Trilogy 3 films
2
70 The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester 2 films
2
71 Three Films by Mai Zetterling 3 films
2
72 Yojimbo / Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa 2 films
2
73 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg 3 films
1
74 Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema 4 films
1
75 Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova 2 films
1
76 Eclipse Series 14: Rossellini’s History Films—Renaissance and Enlightenment 3 films
1
77 Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties 5 films
1
78 Eclipse Series 22: Presenting Sacha Guitry 4 films
1
79 Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden’s London Underground 4 films
1
80 Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse 5 films
1
81 Eclipse Series 30: Sabu! 3 films
1
82 Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave 6 films
1
83 Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. 5 films
1
84 Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku 4 films
1
85 Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System 4 films
1
86 Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller 3 films
1
87 Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals 4 films
1
88 Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein 3 films
1
89 Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa 3 films
1
90 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 1 6 films
1
91 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4 6 films
1
92 Monsters and Madmen 4 films
1
93 Olivier’s Shakespeare 3 films
1
94 Once Upon a Time in China: The Complete Films 5 films
1
95 Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist 8 films
1
96 Rebel Samurai Sixties Swordplay Classics films not listed
1
97 The Emigrants/The New Land 2 films
1
98 The Infernal Affairs Trilogy 3 films
1
99 The Marseille Trilogy 3 films
1
100 The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind 2 films
1
101 Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman 3 films
1
102 Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman 25 films
1

The count of films in a set is what Criterion's own page for it lists. It is missing for Rebel Samurai Sixties Swordplay Classics , which is out of print: its page redirects to the sets listing, so its contents cannot be read. It still counts as a pick, because somebody still picked it.